The Kano state police command has
asked Rabiu Kwankwaso, a former governor of the state, to suspend his visit to
Kano.

Rabiu Yusuf, commissioner of
police in the state, who gave the warning on Friday morning, said failure to
comply with it might attract “stiffer implication”.

Kwankwaso and the ruling All
Progressives Congress (APC) under the leadership of Abdullahi Ganduje, governor
of the state, are set to hold parallel political rallies on January 30.

The two separate events are
centred on the February 10 local government election in the state and the 2019
general election.

Addressing journalists at the
Bompai police headquarters in Kano, Yusuf said intelligence information has
revealed that the rally by the Kwankwaso group could be hijacked by
“miscreants”.

He advised Kwankwaso to consider
postponing his trip “until the tension generated is down”.

Last week, there were reports
that the former governor had postponed the rally because of ill health.

But Kwankwaso denied the report,
attributing it to his detractors.

“It has come to our knowledge
that out of desperation, some groups or individuals who are cronies of the
Ganduje administration are sponsoring falsehood about Sen. Kwankwaso’s
scheduled visit to his constituency on the 30th of January, read a statement which
Binta Rabiu, his spokesman, issued on his behalf.

“We wish to make it categorically
clear that Sen. Kwankwaso is not sick, in fact, he has never been healthier;
the scheduled visit has not been cancelled. Therefore, our teeming supporters
should disregard this report which is a total falsehood,” the statement noted.

“The report is clearly the work
of mischief makers who are desperately trying to prevent the visit of the
Kwankwaso who is been cherished by his teeming supporters.”